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TIL: There was a scheme that offered Beanie Babies in exchange for Firearms in 1998

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B9AK TIL The last surviving member of the crew that bombed Hiroshima hosted Japanese students at his home and commented “The Japanese you know today are not the Japanese we fought during WW2. The Japanese today are nice people.”
ZVrQ TIL that a apartment went untouched in paris for 75 years and was found to contain 2.1 million dollars worth of art as well as a look back into the past.
wLXk6 TIL Israel merged the front half of a damaged rare 2 seat F-15 with the back half of an obsolete retired single seat F15. When they asked Boeing for advice Boeing never responded thinking the Israeli air force was joking.
e04d5 TIL about Euler's disk, which can spin for an absurdly long time, and seemingly defy gravity by increasing its axial precession as it decreases it's azimuthal rotation.
5lJD TIL that humans almost instinctively know the pentatonic scale